PSY 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Classroom Management, Peer Pressure, Effective Schools
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Schools: promote cognitive development rules, strategies, problem-solving skills, effective schools generally achieve curricular/noncurricular objectives regardless of characteristics of population. More money isn"t always good must be invested wisely. Small class size anywhere between 20-40 students is good. School size the smaller, the better (~300 students: overmanning: too many people, too few roles to fill. Composition of student body higher ses students (more resources, more focus on education) Pygmalion in the classroom (rosenthal & jacobson): teacher child, but have limits, rules expectations influencing academic outcomes: give kids intelligence test, labeled random kids rapid bloomers . Give teachers impression that this group is exceptionally smart: assess kids at year end, rapid group show much higher gains in iq, reading. Teachers called on them more, praised them, less negative in poor performance toward this group: teacher expectations have big influence on academic outcomes. Cross-cultural comparisons of academic achievement: kids in taiwan, china, japan outperform us kids in math, reading, etc.
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